My work explores the tension between loss and gain. For instance,
you can’t have sex without losing your virginity. Though
the materials I use to make my work vary, the visual metaphor
remains largely the same: holes punched into paper and the discs
that pop out.

It all started when I created my artist book Literary
Essences in 2000. To create the “essences,” I
punched holes into the pages of the featured books and inserted
the discs into vials. At first I was interested only in gathering
the discs. At one point, I recognized the visual and textural
beauty of the punched text page, and in an instant they transformed
from waste scraps to treasures.